[Scottish] The Future of the LUG

iain d broadfoot ibroadfo at cis.strath.ac.uk
Fri Dec 12 15:21:54 GMT 2003


* David Irvine (maillist at glasgownet.com) wrote:
> What about using xml/html? Its fairly well supported thanks to that internet
> thing. I'm not sure how well word deals with this, but I know it used to be
> able to export to html.  Open office can do html and some word format, so
> that would bridge the gap between OO and Word, and it would also make a
> transition to web page fairly easy I imagine.

<vomit />

OO can open most Word files fine, i've found - the very thought of using Word's
export2html feature for _anything_, *ever* makes me feel dizzy.

cheers,
iain



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